Film

Kill the Poor

2003 · 1h 25m · Drama

IMDb

5.2

Rotten Tomatoes

25%

Metacritic

52

When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float

Clara Bellar

Annabelle Peltz

Heather Burns

Scarlet

Jon Budinoff

Segundo Dejesus

Paul Calderon

Carlos DeJesus

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

Spike

Cliff Gorman

Yakov

David Krumholtz

Joe Peltz

Chuck Low

Bruno

Maryfrances Careccia

Rose

Chris Hutchison

Joel

Julianna DeDonno

Constance, Toddler

Annie Crean

Constance, Six Months

Victor Pagan

Attila

Otto Sanchez

Negrito

Jamie Tirelli

Beneficio

Ginger Taylor

Constance, Newborn

• Alan TaylorDirector
• Daniel HandlerWriter
• Joel RoseNovel
• Ruth CharnyProducer
• Alexis AlexanianProducer
• John MalkovichProducer
• Lianne HalfonProducer
• Gary WinickProducer
• Russell SmithProducer
• Jonathan ShoemakerProducer

Release date

May 9, 2003

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama

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